Backburner / max9 x64 / rc3 hangs after 1-st frame

Ok. Maybe I’m doing smth wrong, but installed latest backburner update and right after first frame completed it waits for a 600 minutes to start second one! Normally, it doesn’t work that way. But this time it’s all different. I know, that default “wait to render timeout” is exactly 600 minutes… but never thought, that frame, that renders 3 minutes can cause max think it need to wait another 600 minutes for the next one!

Any ideas ?

P.S. Don’t tell me to decrease waiting timeout, as this is a temporary solution, suitable only for short and simple flythrough animations with almost constant rendertime between frames.

P.P.S. Maybe it will help:
irrmap medium animation / incremental add
lc flythrough with 2200 / from file
qmc 0.1
adaptive subdivision 0/2
render elements object id
no phys cam
colormaping reinhard bright 1.2
clamp and subpixel on
720x576
frames from 150 to 220
priority of this job in backburner 100%
no active task in RAM, even explorer.exe :smile:
winxp 64 sp1 (until next year arrives can’t install anything new :smile: )

hi paul

didn´t had time to have a look at the latest update of BB2007 from end of december…but for me it woul´d be NO wonder if it doesn´t work like it should…

BB2007 was and probably IS absoultely buggy…

autodesk never tried it for one second before giving out max9…

only way to use it for production is to work with manager 2.4 and server2007…but there were other problems like no editing jobs after submitting and others…

one thing that might help…don´t change wait to render, but time to unload…

hope this helps

thomes

I’ve been reading about this on the autodesk forums and elsewhere. BB2007 is completely broken. You need to install the previous version (backburner 3) from Max 8 to get it to work. Not surprisingly, Autodesk is completely mute on the topic. They have given no indication of when it will be fixed and have not even acknowledged its broken. God I wish Discreet could somehow separate from Autodesk and go back out on their own…